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MILAN (Reuters) - A Milan court rejected a request by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, whose passport was confiscated after his conviction for tax fraud, to leave Italy to attend a conference in Ireland, judicial sources said on Tuesday. Berlusconi, leader of the center-right Forza Italia party, wanted to attend the European Popular Party conference in Dublin on March 6-7. But he cannot travel abroad unless he is granted a temporary permit by judges. Berlusconi was stripped of his passport last year, when he was convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to four years in prison, which was commuted to a year under house arrest or in community service.

Here are some of the more interesting deals, websites and other travel tidbits that came across our desk recently: Rail Europe is taking 20 percent off German rail passes good for seven, eight, nine or 10 days within one month. Passes must be bought by Dec. 5 and are good for travel through Jan. 31. tinyurl.com/plva7su All-inclusive Club Med has pre- and post-holiday getaways for less than $1,300 per person double occupancy. 888-932-2582, tinyurl.com/kehhde5 Gate 1 Travel offers an eight-day/six-night London and Dublin package priced from $1,249 per person double occupancy.

"How's the heart?" says the Da of the Guy in "Once," the exquisitely crafted, gorgeously resonant and wholly not-to-be-missed Broadway musical that has arrived in Chicago for just three weeks, its newly formed (as in, this is their second week out) first national touring company still flush with the thrill, and a little of the desirable terror, of new discovery. If you're lucky - and one of the latent themes of "Once," is that such selfless favors are not dispensed equitably in this cruel world - your parents, maybe even your lover or partner, inquire regularly about your emotional well-being.

Bizarre but true: For all its raucous soul sound, " The Commitments " turns out to be a reinvention of old-fashioned Mickey-and-Judy musicals. But where they "put the show on right here," this is Roddy Doyle's tale (previously a novel and the 1991 Alan Parker movie) of a wannabe manager kicking a feckless bunch of no-hope musicians into a band. Going hell-for-leather at the material, director Jamie Lloyd 's bust-a-gut production risks bludgeoning the audience, but resistance is ultimately futile.

DUBLIN, Ohio, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Fresh off his third consecutive victory as captain of the United States Presidents Cup team on Sunday, American Fred Couples said he is stepping down from the position. Couples, 54, has been in charge of the American team for the last three Presidents Cup events but said he has no desire to shoot for a fourth consecutive win over the Internationals when the biennial competition resumes in South Korea in 2015. "A three-peat's good enough for me," Couples told NBC after Tiger Woods made the clinching putt at Muirfield Village Golf Club that gave the Americans an 18-1/2 to 15-1/2 win over the Internationals to maintain their dominance of the event.

Oct 6 (Reuters) - Presidents Cup results following the United States victory over the Internationals on Sunday by 18-1/2 points to 15-1/2 in the 10th edition played at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio (tabulated under year, venue and scores): 2013 - Muirfield Village, Dublin, Ohio United States 18-1/2, International 15-1/2 2011 - Royal Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia United States 19, International 15 2009 - Harding Park Golf Course, San Francisco United States 19-1/2, International 14-1/2 2007 - Royal Montreal Golf Club, Montreal, Canada United States 19-1/2, International 14-1/2 2005 - Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, Virginia United States 18-1/2, International 15-1/2 2003 - Fancourt Hotel and Country Club, George, South Africa International 17, United States 17 2000 - Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, Virginia United States 21-1/2, International 10-1/2 1998 - Royal Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia International 20-1/2, United States 11-1/2 1996 - Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, Virginia United States 16-1/2, International 15-1/2 1994 - Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, Virginia United States 20, International 12 (Compiled by Mark Lamport-Stokes; Editing by Julian Linden)